SAN MARCOS: Palomar College buying RB site for future campus

Purchase fulfills district's promise to open satellite campus in Poway area

Dowd said Wednesday that the project is working its way through
the environmental permit process.

In 2009, the college hired San Diego-area real estate firm
Cushman & Wakefield to help with the search for land for a
southern campus. Dowd, who oversaw the effort and looked at dozens
of properties while the search was under way, said she knew as soon
as she saw the Rancho Bernardo property that it had the potential
to meet all of Palomar's needs.

"My immediate reaction was, 'Hmmm, this is good ---- I mean
really, really good,'" Dowd said. "It feels like it's the right
one."

Board member Michele Nelson said she walks a 5-mile loop that
takes her past the site every morning.

"It is just absolutely gorgeous," Nelson said. "And most
importantly, it's positioned, I think, so well to serve students in
the southern part of the attendance area. So we're really
excited."